LibGuides: Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Farming & Agriculture

Book Sources: Farming & Agriculture

Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted
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The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642 by Donald Woodward (Editor)
Call Number: HC251 .B7 n.s., no. 8
ISBN: 9780197260296
Five hundred points of good husbandry ... by Thomas Tusser
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as well for the champion or open country, as for the woodland or several; together with A book of huswifery. Being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the sixteenth century.
Palladius on Husbondrie by Palladius
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from the unique MS. of about 1420 A.D. in Colchester Castle / edited by Sidney J.H. Herrtage.
The Whole Art and Trade of Husbandry: contained in foure bookes by Conrad Heresbach
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2nd version

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